by Admin | Feb 11, 2018 | Blogs & posts, Gallery
Thanks to our clinical MRS expert Dr David Lythgoe, with help of our own Dr Camilla Simmons, we now have a working protocol for magnetic resonance spectroscopy – yey! This is an example spectrum from a (tiny) 11.6um voxel of a mouse prefrontal cortex (see inset...
by Admin | Jan 31, 2018 | Blogs & posts
Last month we saw the official opening of BRAIN centre at Denmark Hill’s KCL campus. Although the centre itself has been successfully running for almost a year, the centre manager Dr Diana Cash invited distinguished guests to attend an afternoon symposium of talks...
by Admin | Dec 5, 2017 | Blogs & posts
To celebrate the successful set up of the new BRAIN Centre at KCL Denmark Hill campus, we will be hosting an Opening event, with a buffet lunch, an afternoon of talks from preclinical neuroimaging scientists, followed by a drinks reception and an opportunity to...
by Admin | Nov 30, 2017 | Blogs & posts, Gallery
High resolution (0.08mm voxels) of a fixed rat head that was pre-soaked in Gadolinium-contaning buffer for 1 week to increase signal to noise. Acquired using standard Bruker 3D T2W-RARE (Rapid Imaging with Refocused Echoes, aka Fast Spin Echo, FSE) in just over 2h. In...
by Admin | Nov 12, 2017 | Blogs & posts, Gallery
The three-dimension magnetization-prepared rapid gradient echo (MP-RAGE) sequence is one of the most popular sequences for high-resolution whole brain T1-weighted imaging in the clinic. Thanks to Eugene and Toby, we now have it working nicely in mouse brain as part of...
by Admin | Nov 12, 2017 | Blogs & posts
I joined the BRAIN Centre this July as an MR physicist, but all of my experience in imaging was in the realm of cancer research. I had a lot to learn about the brain and how to image it. I still have a lot to learn, but I was lucky to get an introduction to...
